I am so frickin frustrated with this.bleep. external drive. I copy all content from one laptop to the drive with no issues, but the minute I attempt to copy the same data from the external hard drive to another laptop I am suddenly “denied” the ability to copy and paste. I keep getting the error message: You need permission to perform this action.

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Your require permission from ' Please tell me why this is happening. What the.bleep. good is an external hard drive if I can’t actually use the files after I’ve copied them to it? Having the same problem. I’m comparing all the files My Book against another drive and keep getting the same message. Most of the files I have ownership of but not on this computer.Hesitant to run a program that doesn’t tell me what its going to do. Grant Admin Full Control just says “enable” to Grant Access but doesn’t say how it going to do that It seems to imply it will take ownership but it doesn’t say of what or when.

You Need Permission To Perform This Action

FIX: You need permission to perform this action If the issue is with your Computer or a Laptop you should try using Reimage Plus which can scan the repositories and replace corrupt and missing files. This works in most cases, where the issue is originated due to a system corruption.

Some files don’t operate properly if the ownership is changed. What I need is a utility that take ownership of all files that I don’t currently have access to and set the security to give me or administrators control and then restore the previous ownership which may not be a valid user on this machine but on on another computer I use.

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Sounds like Grant Access doesn’t work any.Has any fond a solution to this problem? Same problem when I do as you suggest, or try to take ownership or change permissions according to the advice on this board, I still get an error message telling me the media is write protected.Is the problem that the WD drive user who owns the data is by default WDdriveNameUsername while the windows user is PCNameUsername?This was not an issue in XP, but had a hard drive crash, now back up and running W7, but can’t access any of my network files. Very frustrating.Hoping someone has a fix for this. Joe, I running Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.Your suggestion does not work.

I find the problem is with files and directories that show no owner when the owner is displayed. I can only access the files on the system that wrote them unless I change the owner and checking the box to change sub-files and folders doesn’t work. I have to do them one at a time.JoeS wrote:What OS are you using? Windows Vista and later can be a pain with sharing/permissions. Go to Computer find the drive right click select properties then sharing and give Everybody full permission.Joe.